At Eyebeam in collaboration with David Jimison, Esther exhibited Otherly Engagements, an iterative series of heterotopias that use symbolism and technology to elicit a sense of the auratic and sacred. As the head digital consultant for the artist Madeline Gins, Esther employs a variety of technologies to assist in the design of Healing Fun Houses, which embody Architectural Procedures as described in The Architectural Body by Arakawa and Madeline Gins.

Esther has taught design studios at the University of Waterloo, and has been a guest lecturer and design critic at Columbia University, Hong Kong University and Pratt Institute. She received her Masters of Architecture from the University of Waterloo, where she completed her thesis on technological visions of suburban futures, and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University where she was awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize for her research in computational architecture.

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Check out a Google map of the final projects from Eyebeam's Digital Day Camp, Summer 2011. Each pin-point represents a 10'x10' square of NYC that DDC teens claimed as their own. They used their spaces as sites for collaboration, creative intervention, research and performance. Through this project, we re-mapped our city.
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Join 20 Digital Day Camp teens and their mentors for a party celebrating 3-weeks spent exploring creative strategies for mapping the unknown. Students will present their work via screening from 6:30-7:30, followed by a neighborhood tour of their 10x10 project spaces. We will wrap up the evening with refreshments, questions, and kudos!
DDC 2011 Blog: http://eyebeamddc2011.tumblr.com/
Digital Day Camp 2011 is made possible by a generous grant from the New Youth City Learning Network Fund at The New York Community Trust.
More about Digital Day Camp.

During Digital Day Camp 2011, 20 NYC teens will spend 3-weeks working under the guidance of a team of creative mentors to produce a series of deep, media-rich stories about our NYC neighborhoods. Their stories will become part of a web-based, interactive map that could include photographs, drawings, videos, music, games, words, infographics, etc—we are limited only by our imagination. Final projects will be presented at a public event organized and promoted by Eyebeam.
Application period has passed.Accepted students will be notified on Thursday, June 16
Program blog: http://eyebeamddc2011.tumblr.com/See what the students made, day by day!
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DDC11 ScheduleMonday–Thursday, 1:30-5:30PMStarting: Tuesday, July 5, 2011Ending: Tuesday, July 26, 2011Final presentation: Tuesday, July 26, 2010, 6PM–8PM